I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Every summer’s mine.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.